"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one."
- Charles Horton Cooley (1864 - 1929)

"One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. the self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide."
- Charles Horton Cooley (1864 - 1929)

"Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also."
- Charles Horton Cooley (1864 - 1929)

"Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise."
- Charles Horton Cooley (1864 - 1929)

"When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him."
- Charles Horton Cooley (1864 - 1929)